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AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY (HARDCOVER)
Walt Whitman
- Justin Kaplan
Robert K. Massie - Peter the Great
James R. Mellow - Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times
Peter Stansky and William Abrahams – Orwell: The Transformation
Ronald Steel - Walter Lippman and the American Century

AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY (PAPERBACK)
Samuel Beckett
- Deirdre Bair
E.K. Brown - Willa Cather
Leon Edel – Bloomsbury: A House of Lions
Maureen Howard - Facts of Life
Meryle Secrest - Being Bernard Berenson

CHILDREN'S BOOK, FICTION (HARDCOVER)
The Night Swimmers
- Betsy Byars
Paula Fox - A Place Apart
Katherine Paterson - Jacob Have I Loved
Ouida Sebestyen - Far From Home
Jan Slepian - The Alfred Summer

CHILDREN'S BOOK, FICTION (PAPERBACK)
Ramona and Her Mother
- Beverly Cleary
Lloyd Alexander - The High King
Sue Ellen Bridgers - All Together Now
S.E. Hinton - Tex
Ellen Raskin - The Westing Game

CHILDREN'S BOOK, NONFICTION (HARDCOVER)
Oh, Boy! Babies
- Alison Cragin Herzig & Jane Lawrence Mali
Jean Fritz - Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus?
William Jaspersohn - The Ballpark
Milton Meltzer - All Time, All Peoples: A World History of Slavery
Peter Spier - People

FICTION (HARDCOVER)
Plains Song
- Wright Morris
Shirley Hazzard - The Transit of Venus
William Maxwell - So Long, See You Tomorrow
Walker Percy - The Second Coming
Eudora Welty - The Collected Stories

FICTION (PAPERBACK)
The Stories of John Cheever
- John Cheever
Thomas Flanagan - The Year of the French
Norman Mailer - The Executioner's Song
Scott Spencer - Endless Love
Herman Wouk - War and Remembrance

FIRST NOVEL
Sister Wolf
- Ann Arensberg
Jean M. Auel - The Clan of the Cave Bear
Philip Caputo - Horn of Africa
Johanna Kaplan - O My America
Lynne Sharon Schwartz - Rough Strife

GENERAL NONFICTION (HARDCOVER)
China Men
- Maxine Hong Kingston
Malcolm Cowley - The Dream of the Golden Mountains
John Graves - From a Limestone Ledge
Victor S. Navasky - Naming Names
Studs Terkel - American Dreams: Lost and Found

GENERAL NONFICTION (PAPERBACK)
The Last Cowboy
- Jane Kramer
Joan Didion - The White Album
David Halberstam - The Powers That Be
Dan Morgan - Merchants of Grain
Paul Theroux - The Old Patagonian Express

HISTORY (HARDCOVER)
Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality
- John Boswell
James H. Billington - Fire in the Minds of Men
Steve Ozmont - The Age of Reform, 1250-1550
Carl E. Schorske - Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
Page Smith - The Shaping of America

HISTORY (PAPERBACK)
Been in the Storm so Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
- Leon F. Litwak
Richard Drinnon - Facing West
A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. - In the Matter of Color
Telford Taylor – Munich: The Price of Peace
Howard Zinn - A People's History of the United States

POETRY
The Need to Hold Still
- Lisel Mueller
Philip Booth - Before Sleep
Isabella Gardner - That Was Then
Mark Strand - Selected Poems
Robert Penn Warren - Being Here

SCIENCE (HARDCOVER)
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections on Natural History
- Stephen Jay Gould
Claude C. Albritton, Jr. - The Abyss of Time
Rene Dubos - The Wooing of Earth
Timothy Ferris - Galaxies
Carl Sagan - Cosmos

SCIENCE (PAPERBACK)
The Medusa and the Snail
- Lewis Thomas
Carl Sagan - Broca's Brain
Joseph Silk - The Big Bang
Walter Sullivan - Black Holes

TRANSLATION
The Letters of Gustave Flaubert
- Francis Steegmuller
Arno Schmidt's Evening Edged in Gold
- John E. Woods
Guy Davenport – Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman: Three Lyric Poets of the Seventh Century B.C.
John Glad – Varlam Shalamov’s Kolyma Tales
Jean Milligan – Kao Ming’s The Lute


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